TELEGRAM TO S. G. SHAHUMYAN

Written:Written on June 18, 1918Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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ShahumyanBaku

Via Astrakhan and Kushka, to be transmittedby radio-telegraph

Sofar there has been no decree on nationalisation of
the oil
industry.[1]We intend decreeing nationalisation ofthe oil industry towards the close of the navigational
season. For the time being we are organising a state monopoly
of trade in oil products. Take all measures for the speediest
shipment of oil products to the Volga. Report daily to the
Chief Oil Committee on the position of the oil industry.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]TheDecree on the Nationalisation of the Oil Industry was
adopted by the Council of People’s Commissars on June 20, 1918.